Podcast 50: How to refuse things in Japanese

Learn Japanese Pod

Alex Brooke

Education, Study, Japanese, Tokyo, Language Courses, Osaka, Podcast, Jlpt, Japan

4.8 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to refuse things in Japanese. This is an important skill to have, as you’ll often find yourself in situations where you need to say no to someone.

You’ll also learn how to refuse offers in Japanese appropriately in different situations using different levels of politeness. A word of warning. Not all the phrases in this lesson can be used in polite conversation so be careful!

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0:00.0	No, Pisa, Jimonsur.
0:03.0	More tabetakana, a job.
0:06.0	Jabilum,
0:08.0	Kiko des.
0:10.0	Hohn Tony Ira know he,
0:12.0	I know. M. E. E. G. G. G. on the Hello and welcome to Learn Japanese Pod the podcast that helps you to
0:28.0	speak Japanese more naturally and fluently and I'm joined by Ami Sensei who will be teaching us useful phrases, grammar and
0:37.5	pronunciation to make you sound more like a native speaker.
0:41.6	How's it going? Ami Sense.
0:44.0	Gonnaichu what?
0:45.0	Ohhashi brie.
0:46.0	Mecha his ashaburi.
0:48.0	Yenki. Gengi.
0:49.0	Sakin I koto a.
0:52.0	Sakii kota. Aikota, uh... n like this. No, no, he.
0:55.0	No, no. No, no, no,
0:56.0	no, hekosh she must that.
0:59.0	Yay,
1:00.0	I'm me too,
1:01.0	I'm not so I'm not going to say I'm us I'm not so I'm not so I'm going to be
1:05.0	I'm a
1:06.0	so I'm a California day
	...

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